Been There, Done That in the Middle East Unresolved hatred, terrorismand the next war.
By Victor Davis Hanson
With much fanfare, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to end the endless Israeli-Palestinian struggleby naming a brand-new Mideast envoy, former senator George Mitchell.
The announcement was underwhelming, to say the least. For 40 years, weve seen such serial envoys, communiqus, and peace conferencesand the little that followed from them.
Can anyone distinguish Annapolis, Beirut, Camp David, Geneva, Madrid, Oslo, Taba, or Wye Riverand all the other places that hosted much-heralded but failed meetings that we can no longer even recall?
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